Unless they changed this with iphone os 4 (the three letter IOS will always apply to Cisco devices in my mind regardless of capitalization) there is no file system access on the iphone. If VLC can't access the library due to Apple restrictions you would have to get music/videos on the phone through VLC itself (since the sandboxing prevents it from accessing other apps data).
Wrong. Here's how I got books into Stanza on my iPad (which I prefer to iBooks for reading my pdfs). Sure it's sub-optimal, but if I can play my mkv and other non-apple content, I'll be happy as a clam.
My money's on the simpler explanation - that is, the one that doesn't involve a network of spies, payoffs, bribes, and international pressure & manipulation, and instead, involves a single guy and a single girl, where either: 1) the guy is a creep; or 2) there's a misunderstanding and the girl goes to the police in anger.
If you read my links, you'll see the network of spies is a reality and the CIA is documented to have done some horrible things. These are facts, and not disputed by the government. It's you who live in a fantasy world where there are no bad guys and everyone gets along with the exception of some sexual intrigue here and there, just like network TV.
Wouldn't they save themselves a fair amount of bad PR by making users turn it on for JS features?
Adobe is a corporation.
Whenever a corporation does something seemingly stupid or evil, you can always trace that back to some fool in the organization who convinced the others that the stupid/evil would lead to more profits (or kickbacks).
If you follow the money you will 99.44% of the time get the right answer. It's all about the money.
Personally, the idea of an impersonal video showing boring math material would be even worse than have an instructor do it, but perhaps this will allow the more "advanced" students to go at their own pace.
I did attend an "open classroom" for several years and in one of those years, I was allowed to race ahead and finished the english and math curriculum several months ahead of schedule so I could spend more time on that wonderful TI-99 4A hooked up to the beautiful color monitor.
I don't think the iPad based curriculum will work for every child.
I'd say, the combined probability of each logical linkage and Occam's Razor imply that the most obvious and clear answer is probably the most correct, and yours is a bit more complex than the GP comment.
There is no information in the article that indicates that the Internet access was gained by "a trick". The journalist asked.
It's not spelled out, but it's in the article:
The soldier had heard of the Internet, but he didn't know what it was. When Tsuneoka mentioned it to him, he was eager to see it, but the phone wasn't signed up to receive the carrier's GPRS data service for accessing the Internet.
"I called the customer care number and activated the phone," he said. Soon after he had the captor's phone configured for Internet access.
"Once I told them I was able to access, they said 'how do you use it?', 'can we see Al Jazeera?'." Tsuneoka said he explained they just needed to type "Al Jazeera" into Google search to access the Qatar-based TV news network's website.
"But if you are going to do anything, you should use Twitter," he said he told them. "They asked what that was. And I told them that if you write something on it, then you can reach many Japanese journalists. So they said, 'try it'."
Simple social engineering, he befriended the guard, and showed the guard how to better use his "keys".
All that said, I agree it's still a leap of faith to conclude that the Twitter access freed the journalist... for all we know, he was already on the way out by way of negotiations with the captors, and the Twitter incident was... incidental to the real release reasons. Poorly written article indeed.
BTW, there is absolutely no need to lay this kind of thing off to enemy action. Not when 8+ years of ineffective oversight coupled with corporate "long term" planning that fails to look beyond next quarter's profit and loss statement are more than adequate to account for these incidents.
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -Sinclair Lewis
iPad (damn that is the WORST name, I still can't believe Steve came up with that.>
You do realize that Steve Jobs was going to call the original iMac the MacMan? Yeah. MacMan. Business technologist extraordinare he is, but he's really not good at names.
As a professor who has supplied documents on many open records request. If you've done nothing wrong, why fight it?
Ever heard of a fishing expedition? All it takes is for them to find something, anything... and if they don't find anything... guess what, the cost is borne by the taxpayer regardless.
Have they given up on the concept of multi-passenger vehicles and just assume everyone drives alone?
No, it's just that in our Idiocracy, people can't think of person*miles/gallon as it varies with the number of people you have in the car at any given time. It's not a simple number you can apply to a vehicle because it completely depends on how it's used, and the most common use-case (single occupant) isn't flattering to the car manufacturers.
The article you link says it became the number one server side scripting language in 2002.
Most of the times J2EE involves using JSP, the Java scripting equivalent of PHP. I've worked on many Java environments in the enterprise, and I've never seen a Java web server without JSP of some sort. PHP displacing JSP and ASP speaks volumes... I doubt those environments are replacing their JSP/Java with PHP/Java.
I'm not sure north american IT companies that do business with indians would be too happy about this, either. So in that case, it would be an issue that directly affects local business.
So RIM gets to lose all of it's business because it's customers want it to provide something that a regional government will not allow?
Perhaps those customers should think about outsourcing in general. The Chinese have been doing this forever, and I'm surprised RIM is going to wall here.
I never see my hard disk data rate maxing out my connection speed, so I con't understand why all this emphasis on faster connections.
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SSDs like RealSSD can already saturate SATA2 at 300MB/s => 2.4Gb/s... that's one that comes close to 75% of the practical bandwidth of "SuperSpeed" at 3.2 Gb/s.
One of many reasons CEOs are given golden parachutes are to keep them quiet about trade secrets and certain contacts. Whether or not that happens is debatable, but discretion is basically paid for.
No, with your example, lots of individual contributor types would wield a lot of power and get golden parachutes... the reality is that the CEO is powerful enough to command respect from the company, and that's the only reason (s)he gets the golden parachute.
It's a Linux system presented in all stores across the planet, on prime shelf space.
What does this do for Linux? About as much as TiVo did with it's "Linux system... on prime shelf space"... actually the real analogy here is probably iOS and Mach... I mean, it's so awesome and powerful right? Well, you have to root/jailbreak it first (assuming the device doesn't have an anti-tamper)... and that's getting harder with each new release.
In reality, it's just another consumer device and runs a popular OS which is hackable, that has a DRM-locked marketplace... notice I didn't say anything about Linux or Java... Neither does Samsung.
The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) in Health Insurance is the measure of how much is actually spent on a patient, as opposed to how much is spent on administration and other overhead costs:
Health care reform will require that commercial insurers spend at least 85 cents out of every premium dollar on medical claims for its large-group policyholders. For small-group and individual policies, the figure is 80 cents.
The remaining 15 -20 cents of each premium dollar can be used to pay expenses that do not directly benefit customers -- like payroll, advertising, overhead and profits.
We desperately need some more transparency in education and government, perhaps we could have something similar?
Where I come, farmers have money. Agriculture in these parts builds cities. Not the other way around.
How would you do without all those farming subsidies? Those subsidies are in effect a tax that impacts denser populations (say, $60/person/year in the US) to directly enable the less-dense regions' farming way of life (to the tune of about $20B/year).
However if you want a laptop with a SSD at the moment you have to either choose a SSD that can store everything you want on the laptop (which if you store a lot on your laptop means $$$), go for a monster size machine or sacrifice the optical drive (and pick your laptop from the very limited choice of machines that support replacing the optical drive with a hard drive).
Replacing a laptop's optical drive with a 2nd disk (SSD or HD) is a no-brainer and cheap.
There are several companies like NewmodeUs which specialize in hard drive caddies to replace the optical bay... I'm running my MBP 13" with a Vertex2 (sandforce) SSD 60GB for boot/apps + OEM spinning disk for storage (easily upgradeable for now to 640GB, but I'm waiting for 1TB or df to report > 85% usage). Total outlay for the mod? Less than $200, with another $50 if I really needed a USB/FW DVD+RW external.
Size is not the factor, weight is
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I know the iPad is nice and shiny and oh so good looking, but honestly, a Kindle causes less strain on the eyes and much easier to hold and is now, much cheaper. Perhaps this 7" will remove the arm-strain issues, while still delivering good battery life and sweet color screen that's not so small as to cause eye strain (reading the iPod touch in bed is not conducive to sleep, whereas I have no problems with the iPad).
... Google wouldn't even have to compromise and cut deals
Google caved not because they didn't feel Net Neutrality wasn't possible, but because they stand to profit mightily by preventing it (at least on wireless). Never ascribe intention to corporations where a simply "follow the money" will suffice. Corporations are money-seeking entities at their core and are quite amoral despite the best intention of their founders or shareholders. Google is (slightly) different in that it was setup with a distinct controlling shareset (ie, Schmidt, Brin, and Page equally own the company's control) and a separate non-controlling set of public shares. This gives them the ability to basically ignore the Icahns of the world since outside investors can't control the company without gaining the confidence of at least one of the triumvirate.
All this said, Google needed a second income source, because internet advertising may just collapse at any time, and then Google would have no leg to stand on... and Verizon was happy enough to give it to them.
Intel does not have the fastest MLC drives out there (X25-E is SLC), and now they're ditching SLC? I wonder how their performance will match the other controllers (Sandforce, Indilix, Samsung, etc)... perhaps their new MLC is more along the lines of what Sandforce is doing?
Mark used his site, TheFacebook.com, to look up members of the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. Then he examined a log of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. If the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed two of them.
So in this case, the victims didn't even have the same password, but accidentally used the email password for Facebook. Combined with a malicious site (which Facebook was for them) this can lead to leaked passwords.
The best solution to this is to use a password manager like 1password, roboform or KeepassX. I find 1password useful because it matches my password with the domain, preventing inadvertent entries. It's also a boon if you are developing with dozens of test and staging sites which change passwords often.
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Wrong. Here's how I got books into Stanza on my iPad (which I prefer to iBooks for reading my pdfs). Sure it's sub-optimal, but if I can play my mkv and other non-apple content, I'll be happy as a clam.
If you read my links, you'll see the network of spies is a reality and the CIA is documented to have done some horrible things. These are facts, and not disputed by the government. It's you who live in a fantasy world where there are no bad guys and everyone gets along with the exception of some sexual intrigue here and there, just like network TV.
Adobe is a corporation.
Whenever a corporation does something seemingly stupid or evil, you can always trace that back to some fool in the organization who convinced the others that the stupid/evil would lead to more profits (or kickbacks).
If you follow the money you will 99.44% of the time get the right answer. It's all about the money.
Personally, the idea of an impersonal video showing boring math material would be even worse than have an instructor do it, but perhaps this will allow the more "advanced" students to go at their own pace.
I did attend an "open classroom" for several years and in one of those years, I was allowed to race ahead and finished the english and math curriculum several months ahead of schedule so I could spend more time on that wonderful TI-99 4A hooked up to the beautiful color monitor.
I don't think the iPad based curriculum will work for every child.
Given that level of concern and wariness, I doubt he'd be "full of himself".
Also, the CIA and other TLAs are very very good at doing much more nasty things.
I'd say, the combined probability of each logical linkage and Occam's Razor imply that the most obvious and clear answer is probably the most correct, and yours is a bit more complex than the GP comment.
It's not spelled out, but it's in the article:
Simple social engineering, he befriended the guard, and showed the guard how to better use his "keys".
All that said, I agree it's still a leap of faith to conclude that the Twitter access freed the journalist... for all we know, he was already on the way out by way of negotiations with the captors, and the Twitter incident was ... incidental to the real release reasons. Poorly written article indeed.
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
-Sinclair Lewis
You do realize that Steve Jobs was going to call the original iMac the MacMan? Yeah. MacMan. Business technologist extraordinare he is, but he's really not good at names.
I'd say it's almost as widely installed as Adobe Reader. Here's a guesstimate answer as to how many copies there are (numbers are old)
Ever heard of a fishing expedition? All it takes is for them to find something, anything... and if they don't find anything... guess what, the cost is borne by the taxpayer regardless.
No, it's just that in our Idiocracy, people can't think of person*miles/gallon as it varies with the number of people you have in the car at any given time. It's not a simple number you can apply to a vehicle because it completely depends on how it's used, and the most common use-case (single occupant) isn't flattering to the car manufacturers.
Most of the times J2EE involves using JSP, the Java scripting equivalent of PHP. I've worked on many Java environments in the enterprise, and I've never seen a Java web server without JSP of some sort. PHP displacing JSP and ASP speaks volumes... I doubt those environments are replacing their JSP/Java with PHP/Java.
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SSDs like RealSSD can already saturate SATA2 at 300MB/s => 2.4Gb/s... that's one that comes close to 75% of the practical bandwidth of "SuperSpeed" at 3.2 Gb/s.
I sure as hell hope our first colonization effort isn't an introduction to the jaws of a Space Dragon.
No, with your example, lots of individual contributor types would wield a lot of power and get golden parachutes... the reality is that the CEO is powerful enough to command respect from the company, and that's the only reason (s)he gets the golden parachute.
Looks like the resale on my older model might improve!
What does this do for Linux? About as much as TiVo did with it's "Linux system... on prime shelf space"... actually the real analogy here is probably iOS and Mach... I mean, it's so awesome and powerful right? Well, you have to root/jailbreak it first (assuming the device doesn't have an anti-tamper)... and that's getting harder with each new release.
In reality, it's just another consumer device and runs a popular OS which is hackable, that has a DRM-locked marketplace... notice I didn't say anything about Linux or Java... Neither does Samsung.
We desperately need some more transparency in education and government, perhaps we could have something similar?
How would you do without all those farming subsidies? Those subsidies are in effect a tax that impacts denser populations (say, $60/person/year in the US) to directly enable the less-dense regions' farming way of life (to the tune of about $20B/year).
Replacing a laptop's optical drive with a 2nd disk (SSD or HD) is a no-brainer and cheap.
There are several companies like NewmodeUs which specialize in hard drive caddies to replace the optical bay... I'm running my MBP 13" with a Vertex2 (sandforce) SSD 60GB for boot/apps + OEM spinning disk for storage (easily upgradeable for now to 640GB, but I'm waiting for 1TB or df to report > 85% usage). Total outlay for the mod? Less than $200, with another $50 if I really needed a USB/FW DVD+RW external.
I know the iPad is nice and shiny and oh so good looking, but honestly, a Kindle causes less strain on the eyes and much easier to hold and is now, much cheaper. Perhaps this 7" will remove the arm-strain issues, while still delivering good battery life and sweet color screen that's not so small as to cause eye strain (reading the iPod touch in bed is not conducive to sleep, whereas I have no problems with the iPad).
Google caved not because they didn't feel Net Neutrality wasn't possible, but because they stand to profit mightily by preventing it (at least on wireless). Never ascribe intention to corporations where a simply "follow the money" will suffice. Corporations are money-seeking entities at their core and are quite amoral despite the best intention of their founders or shareholders. Google is (slightly) different in that it was setup with a distinct controlling shareset (ie, Schmidt, Brin, and Page equally own the company's control) and a separate non-controlling set of public shares. This gives them the ability to basically ignore the Icahns of the world since outside investors can't control the company without gaining the confidence of at least one of the triumvirate.
All this said, Google needed a second income source, because internet advertising may just collapse at any time, and then Google would have no leg to stand on... and Verizon was happy enough to give it to them.
Intel does not have the fastest MLC drives out there (X25-E is SLC), and now they're ditching SLC?
I wonder how their performance will match the other controllers (Sandforce, Indilix, Samsung, etc)... perhaps their new MLC is more along the lines of what Sandforce is doing?
Facebook's founder knows the importance of social media:
So in this case, the victims didn't even have the same password, but accidentally used the email password for Facebook. Combined with a malicious site (which Facebook was for them) this can lead to leaked passwords.
The best solution to this is to use a password manager like 1password, roboform or KeepassX. I find 1password useful because it matches my password with the domain, preventing inadvertent entries. It's also a boon if you are developing with dozens of test and staging sites which change passwords often.